R&D Engineer II
Job Location:
Geleen - Netherlands
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Job Summary
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. Youll lead with purpose breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
As an R&D Engineer youll play a key role in designing and enhancing production processes for advanced medical devices. Working within a multidisciplinary team you will drive world-class product manufacturability by developing and optimizing processes using Lean Six Sigma methodologies with a strong emphasis on cost efficiency and consistency. Additionally youll have the opportunity to work hands-on with high-tech automated manufacturing technologies such as laser cutting laser welding assembly and (optical) measurement systems. Youll assess and improve product manufacturability by building and testing prototypes as well as collaborating on product design modifications. Overall youll be involved in the evolution of production processes throughout all stages of product maturityfrom initial concept through to market launch.You are a smart eager and result driven engineer who thinks in terms of solutions rather than problems. You present your ideas convincingly and to the point. Collaboration is in your nature and you value different opinions and perspectives. You have strong analytical skills and you can suggest out-of-the-box solutions. You show a strong sense of ownership.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Design and develop manufacturing processes for advanced medical devices to ensure high product quality manufacturability and cost efficiency
- Successfully perform process validation activities through a thorough understanding of process inputoutput interactions
- Work hands-on with high tech manufacturing technologies such as laser cutting laser welding automated assembly and optical measurement systems
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams (e.g. design engineering quality and manufacturing) to support product design improvements and process readiness
- Apply Lean Six Sigma methodologies to analyse production processes identify improvement opportunities and implement sustainable process optimizations
- Support the transfer and scaling of manufacturing processes from concept and development phases through validation and market launch
- Document analyse and communicate technical results ensuring alignment with project milestones regulatory requirements and internal standards.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Masters degree in mechanical engineering
- Mastering the Dutch & English language
- 2 to 5 years of relevant work experience
- Hands-on mentality ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams
- Preferably lean six sigma qualified (yellow belt or green belt).
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits resources and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life unites a global team of 95000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor to the conference room every one of us experiments creates builds improves and solves. We have the talent diverse perspectives and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business mission and our commitment to diversity here
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About Company
About Medtronic Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an excit ... View more
